Type-case bracket.



A. T. 'GAUMER. TYPE GASE BRACKET. APPLICATION FILED 001'. a, 1906.

Patented Feb. 16, 1909.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

APOLLO T. GAUMER, OF INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO THE HAMILTONMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF TWO RIVERS, WISCONSIN, A CORPORATIO\ OFWISCONSIN.

TYPE-CASE BRACKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 8, 1906.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, APOLLO T. Gamma, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Indianapolis, in the county of Marion and State ofIndiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type CaseBrackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to brackets for supporting type cases when inuse.

In the type cases now in general and almost universal use, the bottomsare supported in grooves formed in the end and front rails of the casesabove the lower edges thereof and by nails or brads driven through theslats forming the compartments of the cases and clenched upon the undersides of the bottoms. A type case of this type is shown and describedinU. S. Letters Patent No. 566,312, dated August 25, 1896.

So far as I am aware, all type case brackets have straight andcontinuous supporting surfaces, so that, when type cases, of the typedescribed, are used thereon, the lower edges of the case rails, restingon said supporting surfaces, will hold the bottoms of said cases aboveand.- out of contact with said supporting surfaces so that practicallythe entire weight of the type contained in said cases will be carried bythe clenched nails which pass through the case slats. In job cases,which ordinarily contain a comparatively small quantity of type, saidnails or brads are amply strong to carry the weight of the type, butwith news cases and the like, which often contain several fonts of ty e,it is frequently found, in practice, that the wei ht of said type is sogreat that the nails or rads pull through the bottoms of the cases, thuspermitting said bottoms to sag away from the slats forming thecompartments of the cases under the weight of the type, forming openingsbetween adjacent compartments through which the type work from onecompartment to another and thus become confused and mixed.

The object of the present invention is to overcome the foregoingobjectionable feature by roviding a bracket so constructed that theottoms of the cases will rest fiat on the supporting surfaces thereof,thus relieving the bottoms from almost the entire weight of the contentsof said cases.

To this end abracket of my invention con sists of the various featuresand details of constru ction hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying draw ing, in which my invention is fullyillustratedigure 1 is a front view of a bracket of my invention,showing, in dotted lines, a pair of type cases supported thereon. Fig. 2is a sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a view,similar to Fig. 2, of a tilting bracket embodying my invention.

Referring now to the drawings, A designates a type case stand or cabineton which the case bracket is supported and B type cases supported uponsaid bracket. Each bracket comprises members 1 and 2 provided with flatsurfaces 3 on which the bottoms of the cases are designed and. adaptedto rest when in use, said surfaces having shoulders 4 at their forwardends to prevent the cases from sliding off therefrom, all in a familiarmanner. In order that the bottoms of the cases may rest flat on the suporting surfaces 3 of said brackets, t 1e racket members 1 and 2 areprovided with recesses 5 at their front ends adjacent to the shoulders 4adapted to receive the front rails 6 of the type cases B projectingbelow the bottoms of said cases, said recesses being preferably slightlywider than the width of said front case rails and slightly deeper thanthe distance from the bottoms of the cases to the lower edges of saidcase rails, so that said rails will fit said recess loosely. Also, inorder that the end rails 7 of the cases, which also extend below thecase bottoms, in substantially the same manner as the front rails 6, maynot rest upon the supporting surfaces 3 of the bracket members, whichwould operate, as in the old construction of type case bracket, to bringthe entire weight of the contents of the cases upon the nails or bradswhich secure the bottoms of the cases to the case slats with itsattendant objectionable features, the bracket members 1 and 2 aredisposed in such position that they will both engage the bottoms of thecases inside of the end rails 7, thus, in connection with the recesses5, securing the full advantage of my invention by permitting the casebottoms to rest flat upon the supporting surfaces 3 of said bracketmembers, when in use, and relieving the nails or brads which secure saidbottoms to the case slats from all strain and insuring that the bottomsof thecases-will not be pulled away from said case slats no matter howgreat the weight of the contents of the cases may be. posesses a furtheradvantage in that the downwardly projecting portions 8 of the end rails7 extend below the supporting surfaces 3 of the bracket members 1 and 2and, in connection with said bracket members, form stops, adapted toprevent the cases from being accidentally pulled laterally ofl? fromsaid members, Which would permit the withdrawn ends thereof to fall andprobably result in spilling and mixing the type.

In Fig. 3 I have shown my improvements embodied in a tilting bracket,similar parts being designated by the same reference letters andnumerals as in Fi s. 1 and 2.

A bracket of my invention is equally well "adapted for use with typecase of the old style in which the bottoms are secured directly to thelower edges ofthe case rails,the

My improved construction porting surfaces fitting between the end rails,7 said surfaces being provided with recesses at their lower ends toreceive theiront trail of the case; whereby the case is supported bycontact of its bottom with the fiat supporting surfaces of the bracket,and locked against lateral movement byengagement ofthe dependingsidesof'the-cas e with thelsupporting surfaces of the bracket.

In testimony, that I claimtheforegoingas my invention, I afiixmy'si'gnature in presence of two subscribing witnesses, thls 2nd day'o'fGc't'ober, A. 19.1906.

APOLLO T. GAUMER. Vfitnesses D. G. WILEY, A. -MARSHALL.

